Mw. dr. C. A. P. (Cátia) Antunes

Position:
  • Associate Professor


Telephone number: +31 (0)71 527 2735
E-Mail: c.a.p.antunes@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department: Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Institute for History, Economische en Sociale geschiedenis
Office Address: Johan Huizingagebouw
Doelensteeg 16
2311 VL Leiden
Room number 2.06b
Personal Homepage: www.hum.leiden.edu/​history/​organisation/​staff-history/​antunes.html


Cátia Antunes (1976) obtained her degree in History from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, after reading at the Centre of Urban History, University of Leicester (UK) and the History Department, Leiden University (The Netherlands). In September 1999 she became junior researcher at the History Department of Leiden University by working on her dissertation Globalisation in the Early Modern Period: the economic relationship between Amsterdam and Lisbon, 1640-1705, under the supervision of Prof. Richard. T Griffiths and Prof. Femme. S. Gaastra, approved in November 2004. 

Since 2003 she has been Lecturer at the Economic and Social History section, History Department, Leiden University. In 2004 and 2005 she did post-doc research for the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia in Portugal. She spent the academic year of 2007-2008 at the History Department of Yale University, on a Fulbright Research grant as a guest of Ezra Stiles College, under Prof. Stuart B. Schwartz.

Catia’s interest for cross-cultural business networks in the Atlantic world during the Early Modern period has developed into a broader research profile about free agency and empire building in the Netherlands in comparative perspective with other Western European Empires. This research profile has been awarded a VIDI grant by the Dutch National Science Foundation (NWO) in May 2012. This comparative approach will be further explored with a global intake on the way Western European and Ottoman maritime monopolies shaped free agency and informal empire building before the Age of Revolutions and has been awarded a Starting Grant (Research Project Fighting Monopolies) by the European Research Council in July 2012

Research interests

  • Urban History 1500-2000
  • Port History 1500-2000
  • Cross-Cultural Entrepeneurship, 1500-1800
  • European and Ottoman expansion overseas in comparative perspective
  • Social Network Theory
  • Globalisation in History and the Rise of the West

Grants and Honors

  • 2013-2018: ERC-Starting Grant (European Research Council)
  • 2012-2016: VIDI, Dutch National Science Foundation (NWO)
  • 2011-2012: Carla Musterd Teaching Award for Best Teacher 2011, History Department, Leiden University
  • 2007-2008: Fulbright Research Fellow at the History Department, Yale University (USA) for the project: Atlantic Entrepreneurship: cross-cultural business networks, 1580-1776.
  • 2005-2006: post-doctoral grant by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia ( Portugal) for the project: Amsterdam and the Portuguese ports 1580-1640: globalization in comparative perspective
  • 1997-1998: Socrates Scholarship, History Department, Leiden University, the Netherlands
  • 1996-1997: Erasmus Scholarship, Center for Urban History, University of Leicester, UK

Major publications

C.A.P. Antunes, Lisboa e Amesterdao 1640-1705. Um caso de globalizacao na Historia Moderna (2009, Coleccao Cidade de Lisboa).


C.A.P. Antunes, Globalisation in the Early Modern period: the economic relationship between Amsterdam and Lisbon, 1640-1705 (2004).


Last Modified: 26-03-2013